Nina Coomes
Poet Nina Coomes, 17, is a senior at Northside College Prep; she competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing her high school.
Her piece, Pretty, is about the death of Nina’s grandfather, a poem she says she ‘tried to write in junction to his death, facing the ugly underneath’.
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Poet Nina Coomes, 17, is a senior at Northside College Prep; she competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing her high school.
Her piece, Pretty, is about the death of Nina’s grandfather, a poem she says she ‘tried to write in junction to his death, facing the ugly underneath’.
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